Tia Chucha Press is honored to announce The Place of the White Heron, our first novel after thirty-four years of publishing poetry collections and anthologies. By renowned Chicano writer and scholar Alejandro Morales, the book is a parable for the twenty-first century, an allegory of the violence, racism, and international tensions between the United States and Mexico. Protagonist J. I. Cruz embodies a mythic female character needed in our besieged times. Allusions to pre-Columbian goddesses and other Mexican mythological, religious, artistic, spiritual, and historical figures are part of her psychological and spiritual identity.

Three provocative plays by Cuban-American dramatist Alejandro Morales. Mixing gothic horror, humor and Lorquian homages, this collection is a bold look at new US Latino drama's possibilities. Prefaced by interview with award-winning playwright Caridad Svich

Genomic Analysis Using Digital Signal Processing presents some of the recent advances and challenges in signal processing analysis of genomic sequences, showing how the use of signal processing tools can offer interpretation for the study of genomics and biological function. The book covers several major areas, including mapping the problem, noise in genomic signals, segmentation and signal processing tools, and applications of genomic signal processing. Researchers and graduate students in signal processing, biomedical engineering and bioinformatics will find this book a very useful reference on how signal processing methods can be used for genomic analysis.